tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63544841177812033642012-01-18T13:47:35.067+01:00The official <a href="http://www.stratigraphy.net">Stratigraphy.net</a> Blog. Geoinformatics, geology, stratigraphy and paleontologyRobert Hubernoreply@blogger.comBlogger1291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-70880964590095466352012-01-09T21:06:00.008+01:002012-01-10T09:59:16.321+01:00

As earlier annouced at the whitehouse website, a major budget cut forced the USGS to terminate several initiatives. Among those, all services of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) will be shut down or transferred to yet unknown locations (maybe data.gov). This will happen at January 15, 2012 so if you have to work with the NBII services ... hurry up. These are really bad

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In his post Taxonomy - crisis, what crisis? Rod Page reported on a new publication by Lucas et al (in press) which contains some really provocative findings:There is no decrease in the number of taxonomists, yet no 'taxonomy crisis'Instead there is an increase of taxonomists since 1900But there is a decline in the number of species descriptions per taxonomistThis is really interesting, especially

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Science blogs are new and rapidly evolving media in the social web. In the last years, several hundred geoscience professionals and students have started their own Earth science blogs. Serious concerns exist about the credibility of scientific blogs but until now, no info has been published on the geoblogosphere’s motivation and the writer’s societal and scientific backgrounds. Here we

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-60423342438544083912011-05-30T09:44:00.003+02:002011-05-30T10:03:54.661+02:00

In its current issue, The Economist has published an interesting piece on "The Anthropocene - A man made world". In terms of public understanding of science it gives an interesting insight into how stratigraphy works, how palaeontology and geochemistry are used to define stratigraphical ages. It also looks at earth system science and on the interplay of human activity, climate and ocean

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After James Landell circulated 'An Open Letter in Support of Digital Data Archiving' via the paleonet list server, a quite controversal discussion followed. This thread included almost any kind of paranoia you would expect to hear if someone asks a group of pre-web scientists to share their data.Anyway, this letter apparantly had significant impact and NATURE editors now hope that 'Fossil data

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-8223957645446674072011-04-13T14:50:00.001+02:002011-04-13T14:58:39.193+02:00

Rod Page reports on the growing number of unclassified and 'name less' GenBank entries in is new post 'Dark taxa: GenBank in a post-taxonomic world'.

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-84030389283808043922011-02-27T13:21:00.003+01:002011-02-27T13:40:43.880+01:00

Last friday I published the first public beta version of a new -and very different- project: European Research Ranking is an attempt to calculate the importance of research institutions based on the publicly available CORDIS database published by the European Commission.This database contains some basic information on projects which have been funded by the European Commission such as project

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Changes in names and taxonomical classification are a common occurrence as our knowledge of species living and extinct expands. In fact, around 10% of all taxonomic names are changed every year (Nimis, 2001). The changes are mainly in the realm of microbiology where morphology is difficult to apply, but rarely in the realm of charismatic megafauna, e.g. elephants.However, there has been a long

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Columbia University recently published yet another earth science application for Apple's iPhone. The app is called EarthObserver and is available from Apple's iTunes store. EarthObserver providesBasemap (computer-generated color-shaded relief of land and ocean floor)US Coastal Bathymetry (with color palette appropriate to provide details of bays, sounds, estuaries, harbors and rivers)US Nautical

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The British Geological Survey (BGS) has published a nice new application for iPhone: a geolgical map of Britain called iGeology. It is for free and with the GPS on board the phone you can find out what rock is below your feet.Enter a place name or postcode, or locate yourself with your phone's in-built GPS.Pinch open to zoom in. Tap on the geological map What are you standing on? Deposits from an

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Sediments deposited by tsunamis have been studied in the past as records of catastrophic events. The earthquake and tsunami that struck the Indian Ocean region on Boxing Day 2004 and claimed around 200,000 lives highlighted the need to study the sedimentary record of past tsunamis to help with planning disaster mitigation measures in coastal areas threatened by tsunamis. To help with the

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Geobulletin now has a new 'weekly review' page, a summary of the Geoblogosphere's weekly blogging activity. The 'weekly review' page shows the top 10 most active and most visited blogs. It gives a rough overview on the topics treated in geoblogs by listing the most frequently used keywords and the places and stratigraphic ages most often used in blog posts. Further, it shows a list of the

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-16524835854306834522010-10-24T13:53:00.002+02:002010-10-24T14:04:31.733+02:00

Just found at Asia News:China has launched its official online mapping service, Map World, as Google Inc has yet to apply for a Web mapping license in the country.The State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) officially unveiled the free online map service on Thursday (October 21). The service will provide "comprehensive geological data", said Xu Deming, director of the SBSM, at the launch

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-7336124410999771362010-10-20T12:06:00.008+02:002010-10-20T14:24:05.621+02:00

After my first experiments with PSICAT's XML format and SVG, I have started to code a nice little tool which should allow to create lithology logs online!The whole thing is again based on PSICAT's format. Of course it still lacks many features, however a nice new one is that the tool allows to create both, top-bottom (well logs) as well as bottom-top (outcrop logs) profiles. Astonishingly, this

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-84104188983018678822010-10-11T16:06:00.006+02:002010-10-20T12:05:14.817+02:00

UPDATE: agenames.org's pagerank is now 0 again! very strange..Pagerank still is the main indicator for a web site's importance. Therefore every webmaster is desperately waiting for Google's periodical pagerank update. The last update was in April 2010 and many rumours about smaller updates are circulating on the web.Yesterday I was very surprised after I checked the rank of my brand new

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Last week I had the opportunity to visit the colleagues at the Istituto Nazionale dei Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) in Rome, Italy. I was really curious about the institute. Before, I mostly was cooperating with the staff there in geoinformatics projects for sea floor observatories, but knew little about their role for the Italian earthquake warning system.Two of my hosts, Stefano Vinci and

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Quite clearly, the advent of web 2.0 does not pass without effects on how researchers communicate. But how do web 2.0 technologies impact scientific communication? To find out the British Research Information Network commissioned a study and published the results in a report.In deciding if they will make web 2.0 tools and services part of their everyday practice, the key questions for

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The last days I have worked on the new version of Geoblogosphere News which has several new and nice functions:First, I always found it a bit painful to type the long geoblog-stratzigraphy.net URL, so I decided to give the tool an own domain. Because every nice domain name containing geoblog etc. seems to be already sold, I bought geobulletin.org which is now the new home for Geoblogosphere News

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This is taken from Elsevier's press release:Amsterdam, 29 July 2010 – Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data - today announced their next step in interconnecting the diverse elements of scientific research. Elsevier articles at ScienceDirect are now enriched

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-24788207394361075982010-07-09T13:28:00.006+02:002010-07-09T23:04:45.107+02:00

Since ScienceBlogs have announced to host a Pepsi blog, Eruptions, Laelaps and Highly Allochthonous thought about leaving ScienceBlogs and are now looking for an alternative host for their blogs.Of course there are a variety of possible hosts and many of us geobloggers use for example standard wordpress or blogger services. But in comparison with ScienceBlogs these are evil and infected with all

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-979839135825824792010-06-19T15:03:00.004+02:002010-06-19T15:18:04.165+02:00

Last year we had to report on the demise of iGeoinfo, the International Coalition for Geoinformatics. At this time, the domain igeoinfo.org was taken over by domain grabbers and just too expensive to buy it back. A pitty, as iGeoinfo indeed stood for good transantlantic geoinformatics cooperation. But..there's life in the old dog yet: I recently noticed that the domain was on the market again and

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-54254689722530294192010-06-16T22:04:00.003+02:002010-06-16T22:08:28.300+02:00

Lutz has collected an interesting blogospheric bibliography at geoberg.de covering 'scientific papers and important articles and projects dealing with the geoblogosphere in a more universal sense.'

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-20729569796385590062010-06-02T10:59:00.005+02:002010-06-02T11:22:57.471+02:00

Elsevier has presented their vision of the 'article of the future' at the CELL website where a short video introduces some new features for future web journals.The first striking detail is a tabbed menu on top of the article which allows to navigate between the main sections of an article such as abstract, results, discussion etc. as well as data, figures and references. This is nothing

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-85102109744704439272010-05-11T14:00:00.009+02:002010-05-11T14:35:45.345+02:00

Did you know about Alexa? It is an Amazon company which provides -among other services- a web site "traffic rank" as a measure for a web site's or blog's importance. Beneath Google's Page Rank it is one of the most influential rankings, as it is often used to estimate the "value" of a site or blog. The Rank gives the position of a web site within the popularity hierarchy of the web. That means

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-16476623569101107762010-04-20T21:46:00.006+02:002010-04-20T22:23:38.292+02:00

PSICAT is a very nice tool to create lithology logs for sediment cores. One of the most interesting features of PSICAT is it's own XML export format. The format is very simple, it basically consists of two element: 'model' and 'property'. 'Model' is just a simple container for data and can represent an Interval, Bed or Lithology etc.. A 'model' can contain several 'property' elements, which

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-35033471695968894932010-04-13T15:24:00.007+02:002010-04-13T15:31:16.289+02:00

This funny link just came in via the taxacom list:Dudley UnEarthed :On the lower floor the museum has its major interpretative displays in a recently refurbished gallery called ‘Dudley Unearthed’. The gallery features two time lines, one showing the place of the famous Silurian Geology of the area in the history of the Rocks of Britain and the other showing the place of the

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-62684363156504398812010-04-12T13:55:00.008+02:002010-04-12T14:38:59.234+02:00

I started using twitter last year and was quite impressed by the number of tools offering extra services on top of it.Onfortunately there is nothing out there which is suited to send data.You can of course simply link data to tweets via a short url (e.g. tinyurl), but it is impossible for your followers to identify what's behind a shorturl before you click on it. Could be data could be anything

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-36392100817357077252010-03-29T13:06:00.004+02:002010-03-29T13:29:20.750+02:00

Yesterday I stumbled upon a recently published paper by Wolfgang Kiessling (Natural History Museum Berlin) about the current state of paleontology in Germany.Kiessling, W. et al., 2010. German Paleontology in the 21st Century. Palaeontologica Electronica, 13(1), 13.1.2E. (online)In this editorial piece, Kiessling and co-authors reflect on the current state of paleontology in Germany, the reasons

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-79123229184306079852010-02-25T10:21:00.010+01:002010-02-25T10:58:02.279+01:00

This week I received an email from MetaCarta in which they announce the end of their generous conditions for using their web services as well as some major technology changes. We are improving the capabilities of MetaCarta's powerful Geographic Search & Referencing Platform (GSRP). Over the next 30 days we'll be transitioning to a new system for MetaCarta Web Services. After this transition is

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-22809675905101418922010-02-08T11:03:00.002+01:002010-02-08T11:13:53.061+01:00

In a recent paper in Nature Fucheng Zhang and co-workers report on their work on fossil melanosomes of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds. The examination of fossil melanosomes gives important clues to the colour of feathers or skin of these creatures. The expressive colour patters of early feathers Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds adds to the discussion whether feathers evolved first for flying, or

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-34350864343587503202010-02-01T10:41:00.003+01:002010-02-01T10:50:57.521+01:00

Recent advances in computer technology allowed remarkably realistic animations of dinosaurs (and other creatures) in films. But how realistic are these animations?In a recent feature, Danielle Venton of International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW) writes:In a memorable scene from Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, a Tyrannosaurus rex gallops behind a jeep, close to overtaking it, lunging to take a

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-22949036212260177052010-02-01T10:30:00.003+01:002010-02-01T10:39:31.870+01:00

While researching more material for my previous post on "Vertebrates and their vertebrae" I came across an intriguing name.Who killed Bambi? Bambiraptor feinbergorum!DinoData lists:Bambiraptor was discovered in 1994 by 14-year-old Wes Linster, who was hunting for fossils near Montana's Glacier National Park. Now, scientists have identified it as what may be the most convincing evolutionary link

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Looking at modern vertebrates, their number of vertebrae varies remarkably. While some snakes have of the order of 300 vertebrae (all thoracic vertebrae), some turtles only have 18 vertebrae in total - from neck to tail. Then, in mammals the number of vertebrae and their functional division is remarkably constant.In a recent study Johannes Müller (Berlin Natural History Museum) and co-workers

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A major breakthrough for data publishing was recently announced at the Aquatic Sciences News from Elsevier:PANGAEA (the Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data) and Elsevier introduced reciprocal linking between their respective content in earth system research. Research data sets deposited at PANGAEA will now be automatically linked to the corresponding articles in Elsevier

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-71881503531566996902009-12-23T14:25:00.003+01:002009-12-23T14:44:42.324+01:00

We already had a recent blog post on the possible "real" meteorite crater, which is thought to be responsible for the events marking the K/T Boundary. Now here is another interesting meteorite story: Geology recently published a paper on a hypothesis that the Sudbury Impact caused the end of banded iron deposition, at least in the Lake Superior region.The authors note that in the Lake Superior

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I have added some new features to Geoblogosphere News:The blog list now shows a info icon+link (example) which will direct you to a short blog information page, which lists the blog info Geoblogosphere News holds e.g. feed Url, latest post title and date etc.Additionally this page has a PING link, which allows you to trigger a visit of Geoblogosphere News at your blog feed.

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-54767482120240979682009-11-23T15:05:00.005+01:002009-11-23T15:34:41.373+01:00

PSICAT is a nice piece of Java software programmed by Josh Reed which is an excellent tool to draw sedimentological profiles. It was used and promoted within the CHRONOS project and Josh brought it to ANDRILL where he used it to document this exciting antarctic drilling program.The tool is useful for 95% of all cases when you wish to provide nice graphs and illustrations of your profile. However

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-51974117007516630592009-10-24T22:22:00.003+02:002009-10-24T22:41:41.938+02:00

Some of you may not yet have noticed the new geoblog survey which aims to collect representative data on the geoblogosphere. Sorry for using this rather unusual mass pingback to attract your attention on this.. but the survey will only be online until the first of November 2009.So please take the survey, it only takes some minutes..................................................................

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-65565953695546058792009-10-19T13:20:00.004+02:002010-08-31T17:13:49.220+02:00

So far, the Chicxulub crater has not convinced me as the source of the global iridium anomaly that marks the K-T boundary. Other extinction events have already been linked with trap volcanism (P-T boundary, T-J boundary [see also this blog entry]) and therefore I had always favoured the Deccan traps as a major contribution to the environmental changes that lead to major extinction at the K-T

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-45926046268915506342009-10-07T13:33:00.005+02:002009-10-07T14:22:18.654+02:00

If life had been around on the planet for three billion years already, why did multi-cellular organisms (metazoa) only appear 540 million years ago? But when multi-cellular organisms appeared on the plan, they radiated quickly into very many species. The radiation happened so fast, it was dubbed the "Cambrian Explosion".In a paper in print at Molecular Biology and Evolution Xavier

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-40793747164192155742009-10-01T21:09:00.004+02:002009-10-01T21:23:58.362+02:00

Lutz Geissler, Callan Bentley and myself have prepared a new survey which aims to collect representative data on the geoblogosphere. The ultimate goal is to prepare a manuscript and submit it to an international geo journal to spread the spirit of the geoblogosphere.The survey will be online until the first of November 2009. First results will be presented at the AGU fall meeting by Callan.

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Coral reefs were among the systems hardest hit by the end-Triassic events. Volcanism associated with the breakup of Pangaea released enormous amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. The increased greenhouse effect and the acidification of the oceans caused a widespread extinction. The large and highly diversified reefs of the Triassic disappeared. One of the few survivors was a reef situated in what

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During the summer the geoblogosphere has significantly grown. Geobologosphere News has added 44(!) new geoblogs to it's list since June 2009, here is the list:Louisville Area FossilsDaily FossilEl pantano del Purussaurus (The Purussaurus Swamp)Malaysian Triassic BlogCharonosaurus's DiaryAssociazione Paleontologica Parmense ItalianaCarnosauriaJurassic Italia BlogChuck Bailey's BlogOblate

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A while ago Jorge Cham had this wonderful cartoon on PhD Comic what it would be like if research papers had a comment section.Today I found a real world example on the GEON web pages. http://www.geongrid.org/index.php/news/comments/interop_gin_the_geosciences_information_network/P2750/ROFL!Meanwhile, I found another example in the comments section at the Digital Curation Centre.

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Alfred Issendorf, a young dutch geology student is sent by his professor to the wilderness of Finnmark (Norway) to find proof of his advisor's hypothesis that certain lakes are meteorite craters. He has ambition but little talent and his quest soon turns into a real catastrophy.I strongly hope there is no real analogue for Issendorf now stumbling around in the bavarian Chiemgau. The story

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-14396655172409573822009-08-31T09:24:00.007+02:002009-08-31T11:31:32.950+02:00

Stratigraphic 'homonyms' are quite common, a result of ambiguous placenames which have been used to name stratigraphic units. The stratigraphic terms used in Jens' post on Table Mountain stratigraphy nicely illustrate this:He wrote about the South African 'Peninsula Formation' which is a synonym for the 'Peninsula Sandstone'. Unfortunately, this 'Peninsula Formation' is homonym to the 'Peninsula

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-50055206017839693472009-08-28T20:34:00.004+02:002009-08-28T20:45:43.804+02:00

Did Apollo 11 bring petrified wood from the moon? A treasured piece at the Dutch national museum - a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing - is nothing more than petrified wood, curators say.It was given to former Prime Minister Willem Drees during a goodwill tour by the three Apollo-11 astronauts shortly after their moon mission in 1969. The US agency gave moon rocks to more

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-83840638451993529752009-08-28T15:40:00.005+02:002009-08-28T16:12:37.865+02:00

During my recent holiday in the Cape I visited my alma mater, the University of Cape Town and its Department of Geosciences. At his visit John Rogers of the geology department told me about his recent work on Table Mountain and later showed me some outcrops along the northern and western face of the mountain.The stratigraphy of Tale Mountain (Western Cape Province, South Africa) always seemed to

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-23452845414606630892009-08-19T21:12:00.003+02:002009-08-19T21:18:16.400+02:00

For those who are interested in reading our paper on Taxonrank , feel free to download a post-print copy at: http://edoc.gfz-potsdam.de/gfz/get/13007/0/d8b09c133462792c99eb6a163a6c5601/13007.pdfTaxonRank is a ranking algorithm based on bibliometric analysis and Internet page ranking algorithms. TaxonRank uses published synonymy list data stored in TaxonConcept, a taxonomic information system. The

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-34265659534098366152009-08-12T13:50:00.006+02:002009-08-19T21:12:17.450+02:00

The answer to this question probably nobody knows... But, based on some numbers I know, I will give a rough estimate on how much money potentially could be made with scientific data management - in Europe.The 7th European Framework Programme (fp7) provides more than 50 billion € for research projects between 2007-2013. The structure of fp7 is quite complicated and it is almost impossible to find

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-63629957538408132912009-07-23T13:09:00.000+02:002009-07-23T13:20:36.778+02:00

My colleague Matthias Lendhold sent me a link to this wonderful video. What would media coverage look like if the moon landing happened today. It also features Twitter, of course. And Google Moon. I admit, this is off the topic of this blog, but I really liked it. It illustrates very well the "noise" emanated by today's electronic media that makes it a skill to choose the relevant sources and

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-72052527539893112782009-07-17T09:45:00.000+02:002009-07-17T09:59:25.702+02:00

Today I read an advance online publication of van de Schootbrugge et al. in Nature Geoscience (doi:10.1038/ngeo577) on their interpretation of terrestrial mass extinction at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary. The role of wide spread volcanism at this time has been widedly acknowledged and its effect mainly attributed to CO2 emissions and consequent global warming. While this model explains the

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-2980111134269526052009-07-16T09:23:00.000+02:002009-07-17T11:25:30.183+02:00

A research note written by Matthew Robson, a 15-year-old Morgan Stanley intern, that described his friends' media habits has generated a flurry of interest from media executives and investors. There are many reported observations about how teenagers make use of various media. with all the flurry about twitter, the most explosive point was that Robson observed that his peers regard twitter as "

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-16458808526419615492009-07-10T12:29:00.000+02:002009-07-10T12:33:25.810+02:00

Interesting GSA session (deadline August 11) ... copy&paste here:P6. Google Earth to Geoblogs: Digital Innovations in the GeosciencesGSA Geoinformatics Division; GSA Geoscience Education Division; Google, Inc.; National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT)P. Kyle House, University of Nevada, Reno, Nev.; John Bailey, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska; Ronald C. Schott, Fort Hays State

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-37814381100481501642009-06-30T10:29:00.000+02:002009-06-30T10:35:30.230+02:00

Despite I am convinced twittering is almost useless and is going to be a horrible waste of time for me, I could not resists and just created my own twitter account.Most probably I will rarely use it and will send useless comments like : 'SensorML sucks' and 'another boring meeting' or 'I hate standards'. But if you'd like to follow visit: http://twitter.com/snet_robert

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-72477682628332305112009-06-19T22:04:00.000+02:002009-06-19T23:05:52.595+02:00

As a student I had the opportunity to visit Iran during a university field trip. Since then I feel a lot of sympathy for the people of this beautiful country - not for everybody there of course..I was wondering if there are any Iranian geoblogs out there and indeed there are some!Blogfa.com , is something like the persian blogger.com and I experimented with some links such as http://

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-74926880375454329202009-06-18T10:45:00.000+02:002009-06-18T10:52:52.856+02:00

I have added a nice new feature to Geoblogosphere News:You can now subscribe to stratigraphically filtered news feeds. For example if you are only interested in blog posts treating the Cretaceous, subscribe to:http://geoblogs.stratigraphy.net/feed.php?format=atom&age=CretaceousJust change the age parameter if you wish to apply other filters e.g. Triassic etc..

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-58792036699735534352009-05-25T11:52:00.000+02:002009-05-25T13:28:05.674+02:00

Members of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) have controversially discussed the Redefinition of Quaternary, Pleistocene, Neogene, and Pliocene during the last months. The discussion was initiated by the ICS to find a definete agreement on the structure of upper part of the International Stratigraphic Chart (See one of my older posts on the 'prelude' of this issue).The ICS has

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-76274193700684899932009-05-20T10:23:00.001+02:002009-05-25T09:57:35.726+02:00

Bruno Granier just published a new article on a case of micropaleontological fraud the microplaeontological community was confronted with during the last years.Abstract: Starting in 1996 and for almost a decade, M.M. Imam contributed to twelve papers published in international geological journals. These papers dealt with the micropaleontology and biostratigraphy of Cretaceous to Miocene series

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-44146007385792107592009-04-30T11:35:00.000+02:002009-04-30T11:50:36.342+02:00

Some of you may already have noticed the new 'stratigraphic tag cloud' at Geoblogosphere News. After my first attempt to use the ageparser tool for stratigraphic indexing of geoblogosphere posts. This is a new attempt to add more semantics to Geoblogosphere News.Any post summary is now sent to ageparser which returns the 'most likely chronostratigraphic context' of this post. These tags are store

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-81280894454826540152009-04-24T10:11:00.000+02:002009-04-24T14:40:42.286+02:00

After some rather quiet months, members of the Taxonomic Database Working Group (TDWG) have started to discuss the GUID (LSID) issue again.Beneath the never ending discussion on which identifier system (DOI, LSID, PURL, handle etc.) is best, some other interesting issues have been raised: does a GUID system need central services, does it need a business model (money) etc.Most interesting Roger

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-63033040122841292122009-04-08T11:42:00.000+02:002009-04-08T14:25:01.138+02:00

Software patents are a real pain!Especially when claimed by members of a research community. I was quite shocked when I read Rod Page's post Patenting biodiversity tools .Even worse to see that the same organizations - like uBio, which I was a big fan of - which make massive use of freely available information do apply for software patents!By claiming a software patent they reserve the rights to

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-89731763879995261662009-04-06T15:38:00.000+02:002009-04-06T15:49:37.307+02:00

Pre-Cambrian life is a truly fascinating subject. A recent study looked at the genetic evolution of 128 genes of 55 species to determine the order of early branching of taxa (sponge groups, ctenophores, placozoans, cnidarians, and bilaterians). One of the questions asked was whether the nervous system evolved once or twice in the course of early evolution. The study also sheds some light on the

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-78482575503320786562009-04-02T09:39:00.000+02:002009-04-02T10:36:24.930+02:00

Today two interesting blog posts about getting hold of geoscientific papers have been published: The Open Source Paleontologist lists several ways to find and retrieve pdfs on your own. Dave Hone picks this up and complains a bit about those people who are too lazy to use these resources but are asking copies directly from the authors-thus causing extra work.Surely, there are a variety of

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-76045301334582005922009-03-15T22:27:00.000+01:002009-03-15T22:58:39.155+01:00

The International Stratigraphic Commission has started an interesting discussion on the future of the Neogene and Quarternary on it's new bulletin board. Two position papers on the definition of the boundaries of the Quaternary, Pleistocene, Neogene and Pliocene are presented there.These proposals have been submitted by the ICS Quaternary Subcommission (QS) and the ICS Neogene Subcommission(NS)

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-82317413399403538742009-03-11T16:51:00.001+01:002010-06-08T16:57:18.007+02:00

When the "International Coalition for Geoinformatics" (iGeoInfo) was launched at the 2004 International Geological Congress in Florence, Italy, it seemed like the next hot thing, bringing together efforts in the US and Europe in "Coordinating GeoInformatics Efforts in SedimentaryGeology and Paleobiology." (Klump, Jens, Robert Huber, u. a. (2005), Workshop Launches International Coalition for

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-13351785646713954772009-03-11T09:40:00.001+01:002009-03-11T10:02:33.656+01:00

Some of you already noticed (and clicked) the nice 'favorite' icons/links which now appear near each blog post summary at Geoblogosphere News. If you like a blog post you can now recommend it by clicking on it's star icon, the number of recommendations is then displayed beneath the icon.This is my first 'real' community involvement experiment with Geoblogosphere news (except the 'add blog' page)

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-23910379969063437182009-03-09T14:46:00.000+01:002009-03-09T14:51:31.745+01:00

Bruno Granier just sent an interesting link to the paleonet newsgroup:Geosciences e-Journals is a new portal for freely available (Open Access) geoscientific journals. It provides an impressive collection of links to open access journals and contains much more valuable information such as editorial board members, author instructions etc..

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-56877688196578754712009-03-07T13:54:00.001+01:002009-03-07T14:08:18.342+01:00

The website of the International Stratigraphic Commission has recently been updated. The content is more or less the same, but the structure looks better now. For example, access to the latest Stratigraphic Chart now is offered immediately at the start page. I like the new design, the site looks much nicer than before.In an earlier post I have commented on ICS's chart publication and update

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-17941078281734612732009-03-04T21:53:00.000+01:002009-03-04T22:24:36.436+01:00

This week I finally found some time to care a bit about my Ageparser tool. Ageparser is a text mining service which is able to find stratigraphic terms within a text/document. In a second step, these terms are used to find their chronostratigraphic age in the Agenames database.The idea was to provide a service which would analyze a text and determine it's chronostratigraphic context. You could

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-1263461383174417252009-02-24T22:35:00.000+01:002009-02-24T22:51:56.932+01:00

I have added metacarta's geoparser API to Geoblogosphere News which is able to recognize placenames in blog posts. The recognized places are visualized now in two ways:First: a little Google chart API map shows a quick overview, the image here shows the first try. (The Geoblogosphere seems to be quite US centric;)) I have placed this beneath the tag cloud..Second: a click on this map brings you

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-21293663770341531322009-02-13T11:16:00.001+01:002009-02-13T11:25:33.231+01:00

Geoblogosphere News, has two new major features:A 'tag cloud' shows a list of the week's most frequent terms you used in your blogs. As this list would have been useless without the possibility to click on a term and get a list of corresponding blog entries I also added some search functionality which allows full-text queries on blog.This week's hottest geoglobospheric topic seems to be Darwin..

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-81339721418217005132009-02-12T13:41:00.000+01:002009-02-12T14:46:59.586+01:00

Well, here is something to contribute to 'Blogging about Darwin' and has at something to do with Snet: A TaxonConcept query for 'darwin' discovers 12 taxon names containing the term darwin in the second epithet.It seems as if these taxa have been introduced to honor Charles Darwin. As you can see in the result list, there are a variety of possibilities to latinise Darwin's name there is darwini,

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-49901093807283996882009-02-11T10:09:00.000+01:002009-02-11T10:41:10.973+01:00

Some blogs, e.g. DigitalKoans or NeuroDojo have reported about a new "Google" peer review tool called GPeerreview. Despite the leading G in it's name it certainly is not a member of the Google family but simply is published at and hosted by "Google Code" which led to some confusion.However, the concept of GPeerreview is very interesting and might influence the future of scientific publishing.

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-13326761707327455542009-02-04T21:27:00.000+01:002009-02-12T09:34:42.215+01:00

My new year started quite strange: I had a horrible eye infection which forced me to stay in the hospital for one week and of course kept me away from my laptop for some weeks. The good thing about that was that I had a lot (!) of time to think about new projects.Here is a list of these half-baked ideas which I wrote down after I recovered:Discover how open OneGeology is: OneGeology is based on

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-17411360054696306272009-01-25T14:46:00.000+01:002009-02-12T09:32:51.254+01:00

This is just a short update on the latest changes of Geoblogoshere News.Geoblogosphere News now shows the latest Geoblog articles from the current week, before it just took the latest 100 or something enties from it's index. You can now check older blog articles by following the link '>>last week>>' which is a bit hidden on the bottom of the page.Blogs are now categorized by language and by

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-81251540461240755722008-12-16T10:11:00.000+01:002008-12-16T12:45:15.656+01:00

Gilian Ice and Darna Dufour from the Ohio University are preparing a book about disasters that happened to people during their field work! Today, Philip Cantino sent around this message via the taxacom list which mainly addresses biologists. However, I hope this message is also spread among geologists. Many heroic situations in exotic places have been experienced by some geobloggers (e.g. reprted

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-21662784146178941212008-12-15T21:31:00.000+01:002009-02-12T09:33:07.992+01:00

Paleostrat has changed its name to GeoStratSys."The GeoStrat Digital Information System (GeoStratSys) provides a desktop working environment for stratigraphy-related geologic data. Providing a secure private working space, access to public data, imbedded GIS capabilities, and visualization and analytical tools, it may be used by individuals, collaborative projects, and organizations in support of

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-1930859140119007722008-12-12T10:15:00.001+01:002008-12-12T10:15:42.351+01:00

In his Amphibol blog Gunnar reported about a fossil insect literature list at fossilinsects.net which brought up some memories ...As a student I was working at the Eocene Eckfelder Maar fossil site which is well known for it's rich insect fauna. During this job we (OK it was Stefan..) found a well preserved honey bee. A big surprise as no other honey bee of this age was known at this time (1992).

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-31257698424278634192008-12-10T09:40:00.000+01:002009-02-12T09:33:46.535+01:00

In his blog Taxonomy vs. Systematics Dave Hone suspected that at least some paleontologist are not aware that systematics and taxonomy are two different things.Even worse: As I wrote earlier both are completely ignored in a large number of paleontology related research articles! The authors of these articles do use species names but there is no 'systematics/taxonomy' section which explains the

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-2880609898553021452008-12-02T22:02:00.000+01:002008-12-02T22:36:59.639+01:00

I took blogs of the last 7 days listed in Geoblogosphere - News and threw them against my ageparser tool. Here is a wordle illustrating the result of my first attempt to agetag the geoblogosphere.The stratigraphic focus of the last 7 days seems to be on the Ordovician - really?. The difficulty is to identify the 'real content' of a blog and the results seem to be biased by the surrounding html

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-26887508546830389882008-12-01T13:58:00.000+01:002008-12-01T14:17:25.893+01:00

If you really want to scare away scientists from your project, say: "metadata". Most scientists develop a skin rash on having to deal with metadata, yet useful information systems depend on metadata of some form or other. Many metadata are straight forward and can be generated from context. The most difficult metadata elements seem to be keywords.Isn't there a way to generate metadata

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-54936732801697634382008-11-26T12:26:00.000+01:002009-02-12T09:34:10.505+01:00

I have started a new experiment to test my ageparser tool: I will try to determine the 'chronostratigraphic pulse' of the geoblogosphere which I intend to publish monthly.As a starting point I have created a geoblogosphere aggregator, which collects titles, urls etc from the RSS feed of as may geoblogs as possible, basically those blogs listed here in geoberg.de. Check it out.. new blogs can be

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-17836074319218454792008-11-12T11:12:00.000+01:002009-02-12T09:34:21.864+01:00

The Tertiary is gone since 2003 but the discussion on the stratigraphic classification of the Neogene is still ongoing. For example, the International Stratigraphic Commission decided to ban the Quaternary from the official time scale, but geologists have sucessfully fought to keep this system (see for example this document). Both, Quaternary as well as Tertiary were regarded as 'remnants of the

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-49346349007653218002008-11-07T14:36:00.001+01:002008-11-07T15:10:31.219+01:00

Today 'exhumed' one of my older projects I didn't touch for weeks: CollectConcept. This post shall remind me in the future to proceed with it and finish it soon ;)CollectConcept is a online collection management tool and initially was an excercise to play with museum standards and OAI-PMH. It is now used for the management of the objects of the 'Deichmuseum Dorum' but still it's in a early beta

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-40803693284938372552008-10-30T20:52:00.000+01:002008-10-30T21:32:27.676+01:00

One of the reasons why Agesearch is still alpha is that it sometimes returns false positives e.g. when stratigraphic terms are ambiguous such as 'Canadian'.I am testing this by feeding Agesearch with terms which should have no chronostratigraphic context, such as 'beer' or 'pizza' etc.After it surprisingly turned out that beer does have a stratigraphic context, I formulated some more

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-30170875408604032772008-10-22T10:34:00.001+02:002008-10-22T11:00:36.783+02:00

Here is a really good analysis on the current status of the geoblogosphere, an initiative of the NOVA geoblog.Interestingly, the majority of geo bloggers are students, folowed by faculty staff and industry employees. And if you take the numbers on slide 27 and weight bloggers with 'professional background' with against the rest you get a ratio of approx. 1:1!What does this mean for science

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-28742151794647281872008-10-20T23:08:00.000+02:002008-10-22T11:02:17.774+02:00

After reading this enthusiastic blog on OneGeology I was curious how cool OneGeology really is and tried to play with it a bit.The first thing I got from OneGeology was a "Your browser is not supported" message: "This application is optimized for IE6, IE7, Flock 1.2 and Firefox 2".Good to know... but not too cool: I am using Firefox 3. So I had to switch to Internet Explorer and a nice

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-61828959697842738072008-10-11T22:49:00.000+02:002008-10-11T23:09:51.394+02:00

Finally I found something on the web which indeed relates geology and beer and is NOT about drinking;)This blog on Geology News reports about beer which is brewed by 'Fossil Fuel Brewing Co.'. The company produces beer with yeast which was extracted from the gut of an Eocene insect found in a piece of fossil amber.

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-40698113840787930832008-10-05T21:34:00.000+02:002008-10-22T11:00:21.768+02:00

This is a screenshot of Snet's latest toy: Agesearch. It is a demonstration mashup of basically two web services, the Google API as well as our own Ageparser REST service. I will post more technological details about all this soon. Agenames is a scientific web search engine which allows to estimate the "stratigraphy" of web search results. It scans found web pages for names of stratigraphic

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-45142277281608850592008-09-23T14:00:00.000+02:002008-09-23T14:23:37.340+02:00

The new version of ageparser is almost ready to be released, so I was thinking which term would be appropriate to describe what ageparser does.Ageparser V.2 is going to provide a REST webservice which will analyse strings or webpages for stratigraphically relevant terms and return the weighted results (the identified stratigraphical units and their chronostratigraphic position) as JSON or XML. So

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-27080302201601168832008-09-17T12:14:00.000+02:002008-10-22T11:00:55.908+02:00

In this blog we had looked at some social factors in science already. Geologists have the reputation for really liking beer. But what does it do to science? Read more at FREAK Shots.

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-31991270966807259902008-09-01T13:25:00.000+02:002008-09-01T13:37:09.298+02:00

Last week Thursday (28 August 2008, 1930h), "Stratigraphy.net internals" was featured briefly on Deutschlandradio Kultur. In their series "Forschung und Gesellschaft" (Research and Society) the broadcast "Unter dem Wikiskop" (Under the Wikiscope) by Jana Wuttke looks at how digital networks revolutionise the way scientific research operates. "Stratigraphy.net internals" is mentioned as one of the

Jens Klumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079926493997872629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-6189352787022836902008-08-25T21:58:00.000+02:002008-08-27T12:02:18.790+02:00

I came across another interesting article by Rod Page. He reports on his attempt to use regular expression to find Genbank identifiers in full texts. His regular expression worked for Genbank identifiers but surprisingly also matched UTM coordinates ergo gave some false positives.At the first sight, the identifiers he found looked very similar to those used by the International Geo Sample Numbers

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-60229306592160201202008-08-24T21:05:00.000+02:002008-10-22T11:02:03.084+02:00

I just discovered the provisional programme for the EGU 2009 ESSI (Earth and Space Science Informatics) sessions. The session topics really sound interesting... and surprise... : for the first time there will be a biodiversity informatics session.Seems as if things will grow together and, hey, is this the beginning of a biogeoinformatics community? ;)

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-15821182355099272082008-08-22T21:07:00.000+02:002008-08-22T21:31:13.794+02:00

After the first Google cars appeared here in my home town Bremen, Germany, many people have been concerned about Google's Street View activities. But apparently the legal situation does not allow hindering Google to make pictures of every corner of the city.I personally was very amused to see the Google car in my street just before I finished painting our house;)So what can you do to protect

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-20119055822953900232008-08-15T22:07:00.000+02:002008-08-27T12:22:46.914+02:00

The next version of ageparser will extensively use regular expressions to identify stratigraphic terms. While working on this, I also played with some regular expressions which are useful to identify citations within a scientific document and to parse authors and year of these citations. I assume this is a quite common task for some of you, so maybe you find some of the following expressions

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-72302805645822846662008-07-29T22:30:00.000+02:002008-12-10T02:19:07.153+01:00

I just visited cuil (self description: the 'world biggest search engine') and was searching for TaxonConcept to see if the site is already indexed.Besides some TDWD WIKI entries on the TaxonConcept Scheme, cuil showed links to some paleonet newsgroup posts where I mentioned TaxonConcept. No link to TaxonConcept or Snet which is a bit disappointing but not surprising for a search engine start

Robert Hubernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-17750056745671495832008-07-18T10:45:00.000+02:002008-07-18T10:57:06.775+02:00

The Social Sciences Department of the J.W. Goethe Univsersity Frankfurt sent out a press release on idw about a nice piece of work by Christian Stegbauer, a professor of social science at this department.In his work, Stegbauer analysed the network of Wikipedia authors and their contributions to Wikipedia topic discussions on philosophy. The network analysis - or graph analysis - showed the social

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